Creative Writing Major – B.A. Degree

2024-2025 Undergraduate Program Change

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  • Program Title*
    Creative Writing Major – B.A. Degree
    Creative Writing Major – B.A. Degree
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  • Program Description*

    Oswego’s Creative Writing Program is one of the largest and best staffed undergraduate writing programs in the country, including studies in poetry, fiction, graphic storytelling (graphic novels and comics), creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and journalism. Based upon the workshop model, these genres are offered in three increasing levels of accomplishment: introductory, intermediate, and advanced. Students can also study digital publishing, staff our nationally recognized magazine Subnivean, and explore special topics like horror writing, nature writing, and flash fiction. Faculty are all practicing/publishing writers, and students further connect with contemporary authors through our robust visiting writers series. The study of literature is also an important component of the Creative Writing major as 15 to 18 hours of literature courses are required.

    Communication skills and critical thinking are key components of all coursework and prepare you with a wide range of career and life skills. Like our faculty, many of our graduates are now practicing and published poets, novelists, screenwriters, and essayists.  But plenty of our alums are also lawyers, teachers, librarians, advertising execs, editors and a host of other occupations -- all of them with exceptional writing skills.

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  • Justification for the Proposal*

    This program revision includes two parts: removing the playwriting track from the CRW major and adding a partial graphic storytelling track. These are changes that, essentially, reflect what’s already happening in the program.

    Removing Playwriting Track: In light of significantly low enrollment in the playwriting track, no advanced playwriting classes offered in several years, no T/TT faculty in playwriting, and the creative writing program's 11/27/23 decision not to offer introductory and intermediate playwriting classes in the coming year, creative writing voted on 1/23/24 to remove the playwriting track from the creative writing major and minor. We may still offer CRW 207, Playwriting: Introductory, on occasion as a CRW, THT and Gen Ed elective, but students would now do so clear that it is an elective, not an entry to a full track of study required by the major/minor. (At present, a few students begin the track and then realize they later have to shift to another track because advanced level courses aren't offered in playwriting.)

    Adding Partial Graphic Storytelling Track: Student interest and faculty expertise in graphic storytelling has led us to build successful new courses in this genre. Adding CRW 210, Graphic Storytelling: Introductory, and CRW 310, Graphic Storytelling: Intermediate (piloted as a CRW 395 special topics course) to our major mirrors the growth of graphic novels and memoirs in publishing and is of high interest to current and prospective students. Beginning with a two-stage track (intro and intermediate), rather than a full track (intro, intermediate, and advanced) follows how we first integrated screenwriting into our major.

    See attached document for a side-by-side display reflecting program revision.

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